Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines! The new Marcel Perez Collection: VOLUME 2 Kickstarter has launched! Info about the 8 über-rare shorts Steve Massa and I have rounded up and the DVD project are at the Kickstarter page. Campaign ends June 13th.

Only $75 to go (but still 13 more days to pledge)! Thanks so much to all of you who've supported the project so far.

Tweedy fun fact: one of the films on the DVD, "A Scrambled Honeymoon" (1916) contains the "saving the drowning pretty woman and her mother" gag sequence we all know from Chaplin's "The Adventurer" (1917, made a year later).

If the pledge total goes over $5000, I will be able to produce and release Steve Massa's book Marcel Perez: the International Mirth-Maker as an Audiobook! Steve has even agreed to be the reader on this. 8 more days left to make a pledge. Don't forget - backers will receive the DVD at least a month before it goes on sale on Amazon.Click here to make a pledge!Thanks.

The Kickstarter for Marcel Perez vol 2 ends 8pm on Tuesday! Pledging to the project means you'll get your copy before it goes on sale to the general public and, if you aren't already on my email list, you'll get exclusive discount codes for other upcoming Undercrank DVD releases.

Steve Massa and I thank everyone who's pledged to the project so far, as do Perez' grandchildren Nita and James. Click here to make a pledge.Ben

I backed this, but I'm late to the Perez party, so I just ordered Vol. 1 along with Steve's companion book to prep me for the eventual arrival of Vol. 2 this fall. Always great to explore the work of an unfamiliar silent comedian, especially one I've heard such good things about. Super stoked!